Homemade Mochi Daifuku Demystified

Making your own dough is the most delicious.

The mochi you buy at Asian grocery stores and specialty shops is delicious, but making it fresh at home is so much better.

Mochi is a chewy, fun Japanese dessert made from short-grain glutinous rice, molded into squishy balls, and with a little work and these tips, you can make them yourself.

If you stuff the mochi rice dough with something, it’s called daifuku. So this recipe is for a mochi daifuku filled with anko bean paste.

We’re not making mochi using the traditional pounding method, instead, you’ll be using your stand mixer.